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The Přemyslid prince Vratislav II (reigned 1061–92) was the first to obtain from the Holy Roman emperors the title of king of Bohemia as a personal (nonhereditary) privilege, and in 1198 the greatest of the Přemyslids, Otakar I, was named hereditary king of Bohemia, which became a kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire.
Czech Republic. Germany. Poland. The Kingdom of Bohemia ( Czech: České království ), [a] sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, [8] [9] [a] was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor of the modern Czech Republic . The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman ...
The Duchy of Bohemia was established in 870 and raised to the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198. Several Bohemian monarchs ruled as non-hereditary kings beforehand, first gaining the title in 1085. Several Bohemian monarchs ruled as non-hereditary kings beforehand, first gaining the title in 1085.
RulerRulerBornReign852 Son of Hostivít (?) [2]870–883 885–889?c. 883–885882 First son of Bořivoj I and Ludmila of ...894–915Duchy of Bohemia (with Moravia since ...Vratislaus I (Vratislav)888 Second son of Bořivoj I and Ludmila ...915 – 13 February 921- c. 870
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Apr 15, 2024 · king (1378-1419), Bohemia. emperor (1378-1400), Holy Roman Empire. (Show more) Wenceslas (born Feb. 26, 1361, Nürnberg—died Aug. 16, 1419, Prague) was a German king and, as Wenceslas IV, king of Bohemia. His weak and tempestuous, though eventful, reign was continually plagued by wars and princely rivalries that he was unable to control ...
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In the second century BCE, the Romans were competing for dominance in northern Italy with various peoples, including the Gauls-Celtic tribe Boii. The Romans defeated the Boii at the Battle of Placentia (194 BCE) and the Battle of Mutina (193 BCE). Afterward, many of the Boii retreated north across the Alps. Much later Roman authors refer to the are...
Ancient Bohemia
Bohemia, like neighbouring Bavaria, is named after the Boii, a large Celtic nation known to the Romans for their migrations and settlement in northern Italy and other places. Another part of the nation moved west with the Helvetii into southern France, which was one of the events leading to the interventions of Julius Caesar's Gaulish campaign of 58 BC. The emigration of the Helvetii and Boii left southern Germany and Bohemia a lightly inhabited "desert" into which Suebic peoples arrived, spe...
Přemysl dynasty
Bohemia was made a part of the early Slavic state of Great Moravia, under the rule of Svatopluk I (r. 870–894). After Svatopluk's death Great Moravia was weakened by years of internal conflict and constant warfare, ultimately collapsing and fragmenting because of the continual incursions of the invading nomadic Magyars. Bohemia's initial incorporation into the Moravian Empire resulted in the extensive Christianization of the population. A native monarchy arose to the throne, and Bohemia came...
Luxembourg dynasty
The House of Luxembourg accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the marriage to the Premyslid heiress, Elizabeth and the crowning subsequent of John I of Bohemia (in the Czech Republic known as Jan Lucemburský) in 1310. His son, Charles IV, became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, Central Europe's first university, two years later. His reign brought Bohemia to its peak both politically and in total area, resulting in his being the first king of Bohe...
Žitava
Zittau (Czech: Žitava) and Ostritz (Czech: Ostřice) in modern south-eastern Saxony were initially a part of Bohemia in the Middle Ages (and briefly Lower Silesia in 1319–1346). Žitava was a Bohemian royal city, granted city rights by King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1255. In 1346, it co-formed the Lusatian League along with five most dominant Upper Lusatian cities, which were also under Bohemian rule, and had closer economic interests with those cities since. Žitava was not formally annexed from...
Kladsko
The area around Kłodzko (Czech: Kladsko; Latin: Glacio) in south-western Poland was culturally and traditionally a part of Bohemia, but was also a part of Lower Silesia under rule of the Polish Piast dynasty in 1278–1290 and 1327–1341. Kłodzko Land has been again a part of Lower Silesia since its conquest by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1763. Referred to as "Little Prague", the Kłodzko Valley region on the Nysa Kłodzka River was the focus of several attempts to reincorporate the area into Czecho...
Kraje of Bohemia during the Kingdom of Bohemia: 1. Bechyně (German: Beching) 2. Boleslav (German: Jungbunzlau) 3. Čáslav (German: Tschaslau) 4. Chrudim 5. Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz) 6. Kladsko (German: Glatz) 7. Kouřim at Prague (German: Prag) 8. Litoměřice (German: Leitmeritz) 9. Loket (German: Elbogen) 10. Vltava (German: Moldau) 11. Plz...
Hugh, Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hoover Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8179-4491-5.Knox, Brian (1962). Bohemia and Moravia: An Architectural Companion. Faber & Faber.Panek, Jaroslav; Tuma, Oldrich (2nd ed., 2019). A History of the Czech Lands. Karolinum Press. ISBN 978-8-02462-227-9.Sayer, Derek (1998). The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-69105-760-6.Province of Bohemia official website of the Czech Catholic Church"Bohemia", a BBC Radio 4 discussion with Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich and Robert Pynsent (In Our Time, 11 April 2002)- 52,065 km² (20,102 sq mi)
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Ferdinand I (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died July 25, 1564, Vienna, Habsburg domain [now in Austria]) was the Holy Roman emperor (1558–64) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, who, with his Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise of Lutheranism by recognizing the right of territorial princes to determine the ...
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has an area of 52,750 km² and comprises 6 million of the country's 10 million inhabitants. It is flanked by Germany, Poland, the Czech historical region of Moravia, and Austria, and its border is formed by four mountain ranges.
